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| 1In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. | 1Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. |
| 2On the fifth of the month--it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin-- | 2In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, |
| 3the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the LORD was on him. | 3The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. |
| 4I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, | 4And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. |
| 5and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, | 5Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. |
| 6but each of them had four faces and four wings. | 6And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. |
| 7Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. | 7And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. |
| 8Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, | 8And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. |
| 9and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. | 9Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. |
| 10Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. | 10As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. |
| 11Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. | 11Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. |
| 12Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. | 12And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. |
| 13The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. | 13As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. |
| 14The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning. | 14And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. |
| 15As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. | 15Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. |
| 16This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. | 16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. |
| 17As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. | 17When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. |
| 18Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. | 18As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. |
| 19When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. | 19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. |
| 20Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. | 20Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. |
| 21When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. | 21When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. |
| 22Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome. | 22And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. |
| 23Under the vault their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body. | 23And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. |
| 24When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings. | 24And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. |
| 25Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. | 25And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. |
| 26Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. | 26And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. |
| 27I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. | 27And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. |
| 28Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking. | 28As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. |
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